Includes details about sixty different birds, such as their plumage, biology, and behaviour, and is accompanied by a CD with piano music and the songs of each of the birds featured in the book. Music by Daniel Goyone.
Age
Catalog sorted by age group
Masai and I
A little girl learns about the Masai tribe at school and daydreams about what her life would be if she had been born a Masai. Comparing her life and theirs, she learns that she has a spiritual and even physical kinship with them.
Good Night, Alfie Atkins
When Alfie refuses to go to bed, his father tries to help him fall asleep by reading him a book, getting him a drink of water, and looking for his teddy bear.
Dream Freedom
Examines the modern day problem of slavery in Sudan while telling the story of how a group of American students fought to get this problem known and raise funds to help free those Dinka and Nuba tribe members already captured and working there.
Welcome Back Sun
During ‘murketiden,’ the dark months between September and March, a Norwegian girl and her family try to hasten the arrival of spring.
Colibri
Kidnapped when she was very young by an unscrupulous man who has forced her to lie and beg to get money, a twelve-year-old Mayan girl endures an abusive life, always wishing she could return to the parents she can hardly remember.
Moominvalley In November
Winter’s approach brings six friends together in Moominvalley where, in the Moomins’ absence, they must visit with each other.
The Cat Who Walked across France
After his owner dies, a cat wanders across the countryside of France, unable to forget the home he had in the stone house by the edge of the sea.
Bring Me The Head Of Oliver Plunkett
When the head of Saint Oliver Plunkett is stolen from Drogheda Cathedral, Eddie and his gang use their wits to search for the relic while trying to outsmart the town’s most notorious criminal.
The African Mask
Twelve-year-old Layo, a Yoruba girl living in the area of eleventh-century Africa which is now Nigeria, attempts to reject the man who has been chosen to be her husband.